EUROPEAN GAME 
from extinction. The headquarters of the shooting belonging to the present 
King are at “ Gran Paradiso,” and the hunting camps are at Valsavaranche, 
Ceresole and Cogne. These are situated at a height of 6,000 ft., but the game 
ranges rise to an altitude of 12,000 ft. The haunt of the ibex is on the 
summit of the mountains above the range of the chamois. The months 
for shooting ibex are July, August and September before heavy snow 
sets in. 
The late King Humbert inherited a love of the chase from his father and 
used to hunt the ibex every season. During a fortnight’s shooting he killed 
on an average some fifty ibex, never shooting females or young males. The 
game is usually driven. In the Royal Castle of Sarre are some hundreds 
of ibex and chamois trophies shot by King Humbert and his father. 
The Royal chamois preserve is in Val del Gesso, with three hunting 
camps, and sport there is conducted by driving, some fifty chamois a day 
being killed. In the preserve near Rome at Castelporziano there are wild 
boar, stags, roe deer, and fallow deer. 
SARDINIA. That grand little sheep, the European moufflon ( Ovis 
musimon ), is still fairly common in Sardinia and holds its own in spite 
of constant persecution. Its favourite haunts are in the mountains of 
Ogliasbia and Barbagia, particularly on the group of Gennargentu and 
the Pardeliana that rise to a height of 4,000 ft. above sea level. To stalk 
moufflon successfully a local guide is essential, and there are also a few 
Sards who understand that the moufflon may be killed by honest stalking 
as well as by the poorer method of driving. Arrangements for hunting 
may be made with M. Gustav Meloni of Lanusei, who supplies outfit as 
well as reliable guides and horses. There are a few red and fallow deer 
in Sardinia as well as wild boar, and the wildfowl shooting in winter is 
excellent. The best season to stalk the moufflon is September and not 
in March, when most sportsmen go. 
ROUMANIA. Bear, wolf, lynx and roe are found on the eastern slopes 
of the Carpathians, while in the vast northern forests of the Trotus and 
Bistrizza valleys a few very fine red deer exist. In the southern moun- 
tains chamois also are found. All these animals are hunted by the same 
methods as prevail in Austria. 
TURKEY AND THE BALKAN STATES. There are a few fine stags 
up in the mountains about Strandja in the Balkans, and some bears also 
exist there and about Monastir , but information as regards game is difficult 
to obtain without a thorough knowledge of the people and their language. 
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